I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
Jodi PicoultAnnie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.
Jodi PicoultBut Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.
Jodi PicoultIโm gonna miss you,โ Brianna says. โIโm gonna miss you too, baby,โ Angelo murmurs. For Peteโs sake. Itโs not like sheโs leaving on a trip around the world. Sheโs only headed to homeroom.
Jodi PicoultAnd just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didnโt have words big enough to describe them.
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